US government funded $1.5 million study on why lesbians are fat (and gays are thinner)

A Harvard-affiliated hospital will study why so many lesbians are overweight, thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the federal government.

The grant was recently approved by the National Institutes of Health. It will allow Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a medical center affiliated with Harvard University, to examine an issue of “high public-health significance,” in the words of researchers.

Three quarters of gay women are obese, according to the grant for the study. But gay men have much lower obesity rates than heterosexual men—a discrepancy for which there is no scientific explanation, said researchers.

Correction to the "facts" as listed by meninlove - who once again shows that even when he is able to correct some facts (thank you btw), gets it wrong. Title corrected - $1.5 million has already mostly been spent - it's the remaining period of the study that is now in question: